T;DR: It's a really well made, dedicated, well worked and well programmed L4D2 campaign based on the Backrooms (Wiki version, mostly), with a bit of touch of Kane's aesthetics here and there, overall it's a amazing campaign to play both in singleplayer and with friends. It's filled with details and map scripts that will surprise anyone willing to go along with the experience.

Totally recommend, the only spoiler I'll kinda give away is there are *some* jumpscares but without the ear raping loud noises we are all used to, as a jumpscare hater I gotta say, these were very well made with good taste, not the FNAF levels of jumpscares we are all used to.

The only problem I personally have was the famous "Out of free edicts" crash error because of too much stuff in the game at once (that's mostly 99.9% my fault because I use too many mods), but a bro on the workshop made a "Reduced Entities" addon to it and it worked wonders, I played the campaign with this addon active and had no problems.

Link to the addon: https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3476273808&searchtext=anemoia
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My personal opinion along with irrefutable facts:

Without going all fanboy over this and that, let me say this, the Source games has the best visual aesthetics to go along with the Backrooms themes and vice-versa, it's even better when someone actually takes the time to also add more assets in the campaign to make it even more unique, a good example are Roku's Resident Evil campaigns You, the author of this campaign did an amazing job on selecting/making the assets you added everywhere, they don't feel too much "Source-like" and not out of place for being too HD or too low resolution, that part you did incredibly well! Also props to you for adding stuffs we see in those YT videos about dreamcore/backrooms/weirdcore, my personal favorites were those happy/sad baloons and of course, Kitty itself! The only thing on the top of my head that you also can add in the Remaster are the angels, the eyes with wings things from weirdcore, they as NPCs, like Kitty, somewhere on the levels or even on a separate level on the Remaster would be beyond incredible, like what you did with the Kitty helping you survive the entities.

Overal ambiance and map design looks, feels and passes all the necessary right vibes of any Backrooms map alongside Weirdcore/Dreamcore, being them the silly ones or the most serious/horror-like levels we all know and love. It's really something that, when someone makes a game map, in this case a L4D2 map, any angle of 95% of the maps can become a wallpaper and generally a good photo (this is called photography in movie making if I'm not mistaken). In my honest opinion, aside from the obvious overly dark areas, most areas are amazingly designed with unique looks for each of their respective levels. Congratulations, you didn't needed to, but you did either way!

The maps themselves are another great work of art and programming, the only campaign I ever saw with actual multiple routes were The Hive(Resident Evil), and I never though I would see someone having the patience to actually do something like that again. I loved it and you did a great job to make it actually work! Specially for the fact that most maps are multi-levels instead of just a long one each time, makes the player (who care about the effort of the author anyways) wounder around feeling like they are really exploring the actual Backrooms where anything can happen, instead of a more "video-game-ey" feeling of each stage one level at a time, great choice of design!

The audio and ambiances were actually something I also though it wasn't gonna be added but again I was glad to be wrong! Idk if its my game or my audio but I found them a bit low on the volume but hey, better lower than a mess of audio pollution if you ask me, so good decision on that as well because it adds as a subtle ambience not a "forced" ambiance like on what we have on Roku's Resident Evil maps has, don't get me wrong, they are perfect, but sometimes you just wanna blast the in-game music instead of the map's ambiance/music so it's, again, a very good choice to leave for the player to choose what he wants to hear.
The songs and ambiances you choose were fitting for the Wiki's Backroom version imo, I personally rather Kane Pixel's overall aesthetics and songs but hey, its great nonetheless and I appreciate when someone does things right both artistically and going well with gampleay overall, specially when going with a pre-determined aesthetic.

The multiple [REDACTED] things you made on the maps was incredibly clever, I was glad they were in all maps and not just a do-and-forget thing, is very immersive to the overall Backrooms [REDACTED] theme that all of the levels have in common one way or another, I loved how subtly these were along the way and sometimes I truly, honest to God, though I was mad or didn't noticed something until I remembered this kind of thing is totally possible on Source maps. Really subtle and really well programmed man, cheers, I owe you some beer because of those. (Not going into the details not to ruin the actual horror/mental experience of players who didn't experienced them, but when they do, they will know what I'm talking about hehe). The word I'm redacting is a overly used word on the SCP universe, it has to do with physical space, for those who read and wonders what I'm talking about

As of today Its an easy 10 out of 10 campaign, and don't let any hater or false "critic" fool ya because so far we only had survival maps to this one compare it with, and lets be honest, yours wins easily and by a Astronomical Unit of difference in quality and dedication.

I noticed you commented will be Remastering it? Any and all things can be upgraded and made better sure, but regardless, for being the actual first full length Backrooms campaign you did the best job any mapper could had done, if not better...because, well, no one made anything better so far so the Medal goes to you! It really felt like an exploration on the Backrooms with the L4D chaotic zombie chaos, it's a one of a kind (so far) experience!

As I mentioned before, the only real problem I had was the "No_free_edicts" crash error but that can either be solved with less active mods and/or with the addon I mentioned above, so that doesn't count as a negative. But if you are willing, please try to work around this on the Remaster, if you want it of course, that can be easily solved on our side whenever.


This campaign stands alongside with Dr. Anubis's Crash Bandicoot (2020), Roku's Resident Evil campaigns, The Hive and Questionable Ethics in the matter of quality, dedication, vibe/ambiance and overall results as a L4D2 campaing. There are other amazing campaigns out there but what I mean is the actually unique campaigns, not with the classic L4D action pack and linear themes, which also has a ton of amazing campaigns on its own right.

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Anyone not agreeing this isn't a 10/10 other than the author himself (because only he knows what he could had done better) is a complete fool for not doing their best to enjoy this experience this brother set out to do, its your personal loss, unless you don't like the Backrooms...if that's the case why are you still here?...just to suffer...? Go enjoy your life with something you actually like. And if you honest to God thinks this is a mid campaign, help the brother out with honest sincere opinions instead of hate and fake criticism without point out the good and right things he did.

The review is intended for the author's eyes only and I'm not debating anyone or falling into the mental trap of "nah man, its not that good because..." bull__t. We all went there and we all (hopefully) learned how stupid this mentality is because 1) so called "critics" never do anything better or even decent in their lives and want to just diminish what people do with effort, time and dedication and 2) let's be honest, this mentality of "nah bruh, it's not so good because..." is a lie because people, in fact, do incredible things, it's not the author's fault they can't please every single person's opinions and tastes. Some things are just incredible as they are, if you take the time to lean how to enjoy them you won't regret it, but if you don't, it's your personal loss at the end of the day. We all should just learn some people out there have the patience and effort we lack to do what we envision in our minds, period.